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The NFL’s controversy over the national anthem has spread across the Atlantic Ocean – Hertha Berlin, a German soccer squad, nodded to social struggles in the United States by kneeling before its Bundesliga home game on Saturday.

"We wanted to make a stand against racism," Hertha captain Per Skjelbred said after their 2-0 loss to Schalke.

And for the second Sunday in a row, several players with the San Francisco 49ers took a knee during the national anthem in Washington, D.C., where the team faced the Washington Redskins. Last week, about a dozen 49ers took a knee in Indianapolis and Vice President Mike Pence left the stadium.

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